5 Big Google Cloud Security Announcements At Next 2025

The cloud giant announced its Google Unified Security platform along with new agentic security tools and other updates for boosting cyber defense.

Google Cloud announced major advancements in its security portfolio Wednesday including the debut of its Google Unified Security offering that integrates a number of tools onto a single platform.

The announcements also included launches of new agentic security tools as well as additional capabilities powered by Mandiant and new offerings in AI and data security.

The tech giant made the announcements in connection with its Google Cloud Next 2025 conference, taking place this week in Las Vegas.

What follows are five key things to know about Google Cloud’s big security announcements at Next 2025.

Google Unified Security

The launch of Google Unified Security is aimed at bringing together a variety of security capabilities in a more-integrated fashion for improved cyber defense, Google Cloud executives said during a briefing with reporters.

The platform combines security operations and cloud security with threat intelligence and the company’s Chrome Enterprise browser — while also leveraging expertise from the company’s Mandiant unit, executives said.

Key advancements include the integration of various products onto Google Unified Security such as through the connecting of Chrome Enterprise browser and asset data from into the Google Security Operations platform for enhanced detection and remediation of threats, according to the company.

Other major integrations on Google Unified Security include tying Google Threat Intelligence with security validation — for proactive assessment of exposures — as well as the integration of Google Threat Intelligence into the cloud detection capabilities in Security Command Center, according to Google Cloud.

Ultimately, Google Unified Security “offers unmatched threat visibility, cloud security, the most trusted browser and Mandiant expertise, all in one converged security suite powered by Gemini AI,” said Brian Roddy, vice president of cloud security at Google, during the press briefing.

Google Unified Security is now generally available, the company said.

Agentic Security Tools

Google Cloud unveiled new security agents Wednesday at Next 2025, available within its Google Security Operations offering and Google Threat Intelligence service.

In Google Security Operations, for instance, new AI-powered agentic capabilities will enable automated triage of alerts for faster responses and lower dependence on manual effort by security analysts, according to Google Cloud executives.

The triage agent is designed to “continuously investigate alerts, decide what needs human attention and automatically respond,” said Payal Chakravarty, a Google director of product management for Google Cloud security products.

Meanwhile, the company announced a new security AI agent for its Google Threat Intelligence service focused on providing malware analysis, with the goal of enabling greater automation for security activities, according to Google.

The new security agents are planned to enter a preview during the second quarter, Google said.

Mandiant Threat Defense Service

Google Cloud continues to expand the services available from its Mandiant unit, including with the announcement Wednesday of its new Mandiant Threat Defense service.

The service is now generally available for the Google Security Operations offering and is aimed at providing “active” threat detection, hunting and response, the company said in a blog post.

As part of the service, “Mandiant experts work alongside customer security teams, using AI-assisted threat hunting techniques to identify and respond to threats, conduct investigations, and scale response through security operations SOAR playbooks, effectively extending customer security teams,” Google said in the post.

Security Command Center Updates

Google rolled out updates for Security Command Center at Next 2025 focused on boosting capabilities in key areas of concern for many organizations including AI and data security.

The updates include new capabilities for DSPM (data security posture management) that will be available as a preview in June, focused on providing discovery, security and governance of sensitive data, according to Google.

Meanwhile, Security Command Center is also seeing AI security updates with the introduction of Model Armor, used for applying security controls to prompts and responses within AI Protection, the company said. The capability is now generally available.

Additionally, Google Cloud launched a new Compliance Manager tool — which will be available in preview at the end of June — aimed at bringing together policy definition with control configuration, enforcement, auditing and monitoring into a “unified workflow,” the company said in its post.

Chrome Enterprise Updates

For its Chrome Enterprise browser, Google announced new security capabilities available as part of Chrome Enterprise Premium geared toward enhanced protection against threats such as phishing.

The company announced that the newly introduced employee phishing protections will utilize data from Google Safe Browsing to provide defense against lookalike sites and portals, Google said.

In addition, Google announced the generally available debut of data masking in Chrome Enterprise Premium, as well as the extension of enterprise browsing protections — such as controls for copy and paste along with URL filtering — to Android devices.